SPECIAL ISSUE ON URBANIZATION

2015/2016

SERIES

CHINA

ENVIRONMENT

 

EDITOR EDITOR

Jennifer L. TurnerJennifer L. Turner

ASSISTANT EDITORASSISTANT EDITOR

Ilaria MazzoccoIlaria Mazzocco

MANAGING EDITORSMANAGING EDITORS

Joyce TangJoyce TangZhou YangZhou Yang

COPY EDITORS COPY EDITORS

Susan Chan ShifflettSusan Chan ShifflettQinnan Zhou Qinnan Zhou

PRODUCTION EDITORSPRODUCTION EDITORS

Angelina FoxAngelina FoxKathy ButterfieldKathy Butterfield

PHOTOS BELOW:

As part of our

Global Choke Point 

 initiative, the Wilson Center’s China Environment Forum and Circle of Blue, an independent journalism organization, are closely studying the interlinked water, energy, and pollution challenges in two Pacific port cities—Oakland, California and Shenzhen, China.  The initial round of our

Choke Point: Port Cities

 multimedia reports (see the Wilson Center’s New Security Beat blog) by Keith Schneider, Coco Liu, and Susan Chan Shifflett relate stories on the water-energy-pollution constraints facing Oakland and Shenzhen. Although the Oakland municipal government has struggled for decades with growing pollution issues, the city has since become one of the leaders in the United States in energy efficiency, water conservation, and alternative energy production. While significantly larger and wealthier than Oakland, the economic powerhouse of Shenzhen also faced growing pollution problems. Over the past few years, the Shenzhen municipal government has started to tilt towards cleaner, less water-consuming energy development, notably outlawing new coal-fired power plants and ordering existing coal-fired generating stations to convert to cleaner natural gas. Our growing collection of multimedia reports on Shenzhen and Oakland will not only help CEF in creating exchanges and convenings in 2016 between the two port cities,t but also could inform the new U.S.-China Green Ports initiative that was created under the 2014 climate agreement.

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Shenzhen (Jennifer Turner) Port of Oakland (Daniel Parks/Flickr)

 

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or 18 years, the Woodrow Wilson Center’s China Environment Forum (CEF) has created projects, workshops, and exchanges that bring together U.S., Chinese, and other Asian environmental policy experts to explore the most imperative environmental and sustainable development issues in China and to examine opportunities or business, governmental, and nongovernmental communities to collaboratively address these issues. Te networks built and knowledge gathered through meetings, publications, and research activities have established CEF as one o the most reliable sources or China environment inormation and given CEF the capacity to undertake long-term and specialized projects on topics such as energy development in China, environmental justice, Japan-China-U.S. clean water network, municipal financing or environmental inrastructure, river basin governance, environmental health, water conflict resolution mechanisms, ood saety, and environmental activism and green journalism. Our current initiatives are: • Global Choke Point: a multimedia and convening initiative created in partnership with Circle o Blue examining the water-energy-ood conrontations in China, India, the United States and other countries around the world.• Cooperative Competitors—research and exchanges on U.S.-China climate and clean energy cooperation.• Storytelling is Serious Business—workshops to help Chinese environmental proessionals develop stronger communication skills. • Complex Connections—meetings and research examining environmental impact o Chinese investment overseas. Te China Environment Forum meetings, publications, and research exchanges as well as Global Choke Point activities in India over the past two years have been supported by generous grants rom Henry Luce Foundation, blue moon und, Energy Foundation China, Ford Foundation, Hewlett Foundation, ClimateWorks Foundation, and the Walt Disney Company. Dr. Jennier L. urner has directed the China Environment Forum since 1999. Te China Environment Forum is a project under the Wilson Center’s Global Sustainability and Resilience Program.

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